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But we that have but span-long life,
The thicker must lay on the pleasure;
And since time will not stay,
We'll add night to the day,
Thus, thus we'll fill the measure.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Duet printed 1795, probably of earlier date
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Night is a stealthy, evil Raven,
Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings.
Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Source: Day and Night
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Night comes, world-jewelled, . . .
The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage
War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon,
Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth
After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. Garden and Bower by the Sea)
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I love night more than day--she is so lovely;
But I love night the most because she brings
My love to me in dreams which scarcely lie.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. Water and Wood--Midnight)
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Wan night, the shadow goer, came stepping in.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. Water and Wood--Midnight)
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The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman,
what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
Author: Bible
Source: Isaiah (ch. XXI, v. 11)
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In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep
falleth on men.
Author: Bible
Source: Job (ch. IV, v. 13)
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I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the
night cometh, when no man can work.
Author: Bible
Source: John (ch. IX, v. 4)
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When it draws near to witching time of night.
Author: Robert Blair
Source: The Grave (l. 55)
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The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one:
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.
Author: Francis William Bourdillon
Source: The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
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Most glorious night!
Thou wert not sent for slumber!
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Childe Harold (canto III, st. 93)
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For the night
Shows stars and women in a better light.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto II, st. 152)
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The stars are forth, the moon above the tops
Of the snow-shining mountains--Beautiful!
I linger yet with Nature, for the night
Hath been to me a more familiar face
Than that of man; and in her starry shade
Of dim and solitary loveliness
I learn'd the language of another world.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Manfred (act III, sc. 4)
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Night's black Mantle covers all alike.
- Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,
Author: Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
Source: Divine Weekes and Workes--First Week--First Day (l. 562)
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O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray!
Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I)
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Dark the Night, with breath all flowers,
And tender broken voice that fills
With ravishment the listening hours,--
Whisperings, wooings,
Liquid ripples, and soft ring-dove cooings
In low-toned rhythm that love's aching stills!
Dark the night
Yet is she bright,
For in her dark she brings the mystic star,
Trembling yet strong, as is the voice of love,
From some unknown afar.
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I, song)
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For there is no day however beautiful that is not followed by
night.
[Fr., Car il n'est si beau jour qui n'amene sa nuit.]
Author: Epitaph
Source: on the tombstone of Jean d'Orbesan at Padua
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The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind,
And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind:
There all in sweet confusion sought the shade,
And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Deserted Village (l. 121)
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A late lark twitters from the quiet skies:
And from the west,
Where the sun, his day's work ended,
Lingers as in content,
There falls on the old, gray city
An influence luminous and serene,
A shining peace.
Author: William Ernest Henley
Source: Margaritoe Sorori
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The smoke ascends
In a rosy-and-golden haze. The spires
Shine and are changed. In the valley
Shadows rise. The lark sings on. The sun
Closing his benediction,
Sinks, and the darkening air
Thrills with the sense of the triumphing night,--
Night with train of stars
And her great gift of sleep.
Author: William Ernest Henley
Source: Margaritoe Sorori
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Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light,
And drew behind the cloudy vale of night.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Iliad (bk. VIII, l. 605), (Pope's translation)
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At night, to his own dark fancies a prey,
He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,
Tormenting himself with his prickles.
Author: Thomas Hood
Source: Miss Kilmansegg and her precious Leg
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'Tis the witching hour of night,
Orbed is the moon and bright,
And the stars they glisten, glisten,
Seeming with bright eyes to listen-
For what listen they?
Author: John Keats
Source: A Prophecy (l. 1)
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And the night shall be filled with music
And the cares, that infest the day,
Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,
And as silently steal away.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: The Day is Done
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I heard the trailing garments of the Night
Sweep through her marble halls.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Hymn to the Night
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Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.
Author: Catherine O'Hara
Source: None
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Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
Author: Ellen Goodman
Source: None
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The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.
Author: Frederick L. Knowles
Source: None
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A decision made at night may be changed in the morning.
Author: Samoan Proverb
Source: None
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A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
Author: Albert Schweitzer
Source: None
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Boast during the day; be humble at night.
Author: Maori Proverb
Source: None
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Don't sleep too much. If you sleep 3 hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.
Author: Aristotle Onassis
Source: None
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